Anyone who lives in Europe, has ever been there, or even dreamed of visiting knows the incredible variety, striking characteristics and history driven culture that exists on this continent. We bring you collection of 44 best photos from all over the Europe. Enjoy. (Click photo to enlarge)

Belgium

Croatia

Czech Republic

England

France

Germany

Greece

Hungary

Ireland

Italy

Netherland

Norway

Poland

Portugal

Scotland

Spain

Europe is the world's second-smallest continent by surface area, covering about 10,180,000 square kilometres (3,930,000 sq mi) or 2% of the Earth's surface and about 6.8% of its land area. Of Europe's approximately 50 states, Russia is the largest by both area and population, while Vatican City is the smallest. Europe is the third-most populous continent after Asia and Africa, with a population of 731 million or about 11% of the world's population. However, according to the United Nations (medium estimate), Europe's share may fall to about 7% by 2050. In 1900, Europe's share of the world's population was 25%. More on Wikipedia.

Sorry to burst your HRD bubble, but there's a picture in there of the waterfront in Barcelona, Spain. I took a picture from almost the same spot, facing the exact same direction, under the same weather conditions, and it came out, well, almost exactly the same.

where is turkey? Istanbul extends both on the European and on the Asian (Anatolia) sides of the Bosphorus, and is thereby the only metropolis in the world that is situated on two continents. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Istanbul)

HDR overkill here - yes, they've achieved impressive contrast ranges, but a landscape photo is generally meant to represent what the landscape actually looks to the human eye - not how it would look if we were able to see in HDR. Just my view of course.

most of these pictures are terrible, not because they are bad pictures, but because of the retarded amounts of 'clarity' used in photoshop RAW. Alos some of the saturation and contrast values just make this look like a businessman that calls himself a graphic designer on the side. granted there are a few, very natural, lovely pictures on here. overall, breathtaking isnt the word i'd use for these.

So much HDR fail. Learn to expose properly and work within the limitations of your equipment and medium, like photographers have been doing for the last hundred years. HDR is just ugly laziness by talentless wankers./rant

Jesus... Stumble fails again. Just so inevitable that every single list of '40 of the most amazing photographs of...whatever...' is, instead, going to be '40 kinda cool, but totally raped with photo-shop photographs to show all you stumblers how obvious I can make it that I've shopped every single one of them, causing you to hit the thumbs down button to try and avoid stumbling the same tiring crap...'Poo

I get that HDR is a legitimate skill that can be used to really enhance a good photo, but I agree with other posters. Some of this is just way too much. Less is more. The HDR effects should be MUCH more subtle.

HRD doesn't automatically equal "breathtaking". Some of these are pretty sloppily done - halos around the edges.Its these kind of images that make Americans believe that Europe is an ancient fantasy world. It's real, beautiful, ugly, old, and new. But it isn't HRD.

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These photos are absolutely stunning my friend and despite the harsh criticism of "Anonymous" who keeps yammering on and on, your images constitute ART and your unique perspective on life throughout these lands. The shot in Ireland of the old church and sunset is magical!!!

Amazing photos! I am always impressed by the architecture of the Czech Republic and the surprising beauty of Croatia. I first saw the landscape of these countries on TravelExplosion.com some time ago. Makes you just want to hope on a plane and take a vacation!